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Obesity risk among adolescents reduced with 5 regular meals a day (10/07/13 08:00:00 UTC)

A regular eating pattern may protect adolescents from obesity, according to a Finnish population-based study with more than 4,000 participants. When eating five meals - breakfast, lunch, dinner and two snacks - a day, even those with a genetic predisposition to obesity had no higher body mass index (BMI) than their controls...

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Key function discovered in molecule that regulates sleep, metabolism and hunger (10/07/13 07:00:00 UTC)

Why does hunger keep us awake and a full belly make us tired? Why do people with sleep disorders such as insomnia often binge eat late at night? What can sleep patterns tell us about obesity? Sleep, hunger and metabolism are closely related, but scientists are still struggling to understand how they interact...

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'Pigging out' - some people could be genetically programmed to eat more food than others (10/07/13 08:00:00 UTC)

Researchers from University of Copenhagen have discovered big differences in the variability of eating habits among pigs. The newly published study - led by professor Haja Kadarmideen - is the first in the world looking at pig to human comparative genetic mapping to reveal key genes on the human genome that are known to be involved in obesity...

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